Soap-dish



(No Model.)

H. O. HART.

SOAP DISH. No. 319,246. Patented June 2, 1885.

Inventor:

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ST TES HENRY O. HART, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

SOAP-DISH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,245, dated June 2, 1885.

Application filed March 6, 1885. (N 0 model To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY G. HART, of De troit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Soap-Dishes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in an improvement in soap-dishes for use in sleeping-car lavatories, hereinafter fully pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 is a vertical section. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the soap-dish proper, and Fig. 3 is a plan View of the metal base to which the dish is secured.

In sleeping-car lavatories the soapdishes are usually fastened to a metal plate secured to the marble slab which forms the top of the wash-stand, and through this slab is a hole, into which rises the upper end of a pipe which leads to a water-tank beneath the wash-stand. Tofill the tank the soap-dish is removed from the metal plate, a funnel put through the hole in the plate into the pipe, and water poured through the funnel. The soap-dish screws into the hole through the plate and stops the upper end of the pipe. The soap dish is usually made with a tightbottom, and holds the soapy water which drains from the soap, and can only be cleaned by removing and emptying it. I obviate this disadvantage in the following manner: A represents a metal plate, which is secured to the marble top of the washstand by two bolts, L, which pass through the marble, and are secured by nuts M, usually having a flange, N, thereon pierced with a hole at each end to receive a screw, which prevents the nut from working loose. An

opening is made through the center of plate A, and on the upper side of the plate the rim of the hole is raised into a shoulder, D, screwthreaded internally, and on the under side of the plate the opening is extended downwardly to receive the upper end of a pipe which leads to the water-tank, as shown at O. G represents an annular shoulder raised on the upper side of plate A, so that between the shoulders O D is formed an annular chamber, I.

H represents a waste-pipe secured to the plate A, and leading from chamber I, preferably from a depression therein, to any suitable point of discharge. I usually connect the waste-pipe H with the waste-pipe of one of the wash-bowls.

B represents the soap-dish proper, made in the usual form, and having in its bottom and over chamber I a circular row of small holes, K. I usually make the bottom of the soapdish convex, as shown at E, so that the holes K are in a depression, T; but the bottom of the soap-dish may be flat.

F represents a sorew-threaded nipple fastened to the under side of the soap-dish,usual- 1y by solder, and this nipple F screws into the threaded shoulder D, so as to hold the soapdish firmly in place and close the opening through the plate A. By this construction any water that goes into the soap-dish with the soap drains through holes K into the chamber I and passes off through the waste-pipe H.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination-of the soap-dish B, having the holes K therein, with the plate A, having therein the chamber I and the waste-pipe H, said soap-dish being removably secured to said plate, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

HENRY O. HART.

Witnesses:

J NO. G. RUMNEY, J. W. Cnoss.- 

